Gina Rinehart and Nine set to do battle again over advertising of the House of Hancock DVD

March 11, 2016 9:59

Rinehart-234x29711 The legal battle between Gina Rinehart and the Nine Network is set to return to court today amid concerns by the mining magnate about what will be included on the DVD release of mini-series House of Hancock.

Rinehart has filed an amended statement of claim seeking an injunction against Nine and production house Cordell Jigsaw Productions over the miniseries which focuses on the relationship between Rinehart, her father Lang Hancock and his second wife Rose Porteous.

In the documents, Rinehart’s lawyers seek an injunction on the defendants’ advertising the DVDs, claiming numerous “falsehoods” and breaches of both competition and consumer law as well as a non-existent Australian tort of privacy.

Among the numerous falsehoods alleged by the Rinehart camp, in the amended statement, are that: “Lang Hancock was a person with a propensity to cheat at tennis”, her mother “Hope Hancock as a person of blonde hair”, and that her father “used profanities in the presence of his daughter.”

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Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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